DLA-3926-1

Vulnerabilities were found in Perl's CPAN.pm, which could lead CPAN clients to install malicious modules.

CVE-2020-16156

Stig Palmquist discovered that an attacker can prepend checksums for
modified packages to the beginning of CHECKSUMS files, before the
cleartext PGP headers, resulting in signature verification bypass.

CPAN.pm has been updated so that when configured to validate the
signature on CHECKSUMS, it will refuse to install a tarball if the
associated CHECKSUMS file isn't signed.  The gpg(1) executable is
required in order to validate signatures.

CVE-2023-31484

Stig Palmquist discovered that CPAN::HTTP::Client did not verify
X.509 certificates in the HTTP::Tiny call, which could allows an
attacker to MITM the connection with the CPAN mirror.

CPAN::HTTP::Client now enables the `verify_SSL` flag.  HTTPS mirrors
therefore require a valid certificate.  The identity of the default
mirror https://cpan.org can be verified after installing the
'ca-certificates' package.